Summaries and paraphrases condense arguments

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True or false

1. Philosophy seeks to explain the causes of our beliefs.

2. Philosophy is concerned with clarifying concepts, but even more so with assessing arguments.

3."Active" reading includes reading for arguments.

4. Summaries and paraphrases condense arguments.

5. "Logical" arguments are when two people voice disagreement over some issue.

6 The explanation of Rule 1-3 contains an argument.

7 deductive or inductive.

8 All argument forms with variables in the form are deductive.

9 Philosophy is profound, so when you write philosophy, try to sound profound with the words and expressions you use.

10 Overstatement can directly affect for the worse the quality of your argument --both the truth of the premises and the inferability of the conclusion.

11 Some fallacies such as division are closely associated with being unfair to an author of an objection.

12. To be clear in our writing we should avoid all forms of vagueness, ambiguity, and generality.

13 An argumentative essay is a summary of an argument found in some author's writings.

14 The thesis should be stated in the introduction of the paper.

15 Do not consider an objection if you do not have a way of refuting it.

16 Any essay that isn't "very short" should have a conclusion.

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